remarkable exception, is an excellent compendium of Roman jurisprudence. The exception we allude to is the doctrine of Evidence, which is altogether omitted in the Institutes. To supply this deficiency we strongly recommend Domat's Civil Law, vol. 1, book 3d, title vi. 'Of Proofs and Presumptions and of an Oath;' and an occasional reference to the pages of Everhardus' 'De Testibus et Fide Instrumentorum,' Machardus' 'De Probationibus,' Menochius' 'De Præsumptionibus,' and Farinacius' 'De Testibus,' who are the most distinguished authors on the civil law of evidence. The best editions of the Institutes are by Arnold Vinnius, professor of law at Leyden in 1650, in the original, with excellent Latin annotations; and the English translation by Harris, and the one by Dr. Cooper, published at Philadelphia, in 1812. The student will of course read Dr. Cooper's edition, as it is decidedly superiour to any other, though no very fair specimen of the doctor's learning or industry.

* We do not desire the student even to refer to these works, when now reading Justinian's Institutes. But when he comes to study the Roman law, under the Tenth Title of this Course, we shall expect him to consult them with care.

PARTICULAR SYLLABUS.

TITLE III.

'Emisit me mater Londinum, juris nostri capessendi gratiâ; cujus cùm vestibulum salutâssem, reperissemque linguam peregrinam, dialectum barbarum, methodum inconcinnam, molem non ingentem solum, sed perpetuis humeris sustinendam, excedit mihi fateor animus.'-Spelman.*

THE LAW OF REAL RIGHTS AND REAL REMEDIES.

(Note 1.)

I. THE LAW OF REAL RIGHTS. (Note 2.)

(Note 3.)

Littleton.

1st. Littleton's Tenures.
2d. Coke's Commentary upon

[Hargrave and Butler's edition.] (Note 4.)
3d. Cruise's Digest of the Real Law.

[The following Select Titles only:] (Note 5.)

VOLUME I.

Of the Feudal Laws.

Of the Ancient Tenures.

Of the Modern English Tenures.
(Note 6.)

* Vide Note 5, on this Title.

TENURES OF

PROPERTY,

Estates in Fee Simple.

[Two chapters.]

Possibility of Issue extinct.

Estate Tail.

Estate Tail after

Estate for years.

[Two chapters.] (Note 7.)

Estate at Will and at Sufferance.

Estate from year to year. (Note 8.)

Estate by Curtesy. [Two chapters.] (Note 9.)

Treated

under the

same title.

Estate in Dower. [Five chapters.] (Note 10.) e. Estate in Jointure. [Three chapters.] (Note 11.)

TIME

OF ENJOYMENT OF

THE ESTATES.

THE ESTATE OR INTEREST WHICH MAY BE HAD IN REAL PROPERTY.

VOLUME II.

Estate on Condition.

[Two chapters.]

e. Estates by Statute Merchant, &c.

Mortgage. [Six chapters.] (Note 12.)
Remainder. [Eight chapters.] (Note 13.)
Reversion. [In lieu of the title 'REMAINDER'
in Cruise's Digest, the Student may read
the following works:

Fearne on Remainders and Executory

Cornish on Remainders. (Note 15.)]

Joint Tenancy. [Two chapters.]

Coparcenary.

Tenancy in Common.

THE

NUMBER
AND RELATION

OF OWNERS.

Devise. [Twenty chapters.] (Note 19.)

Use.
Trust.

VOLUME I.

(Note 20.)

* There is no such Title in Cruise. The import of these three significant words will be found under the title 'Fee Simple.' They are now inserted merely to remind the student that the OBJECTS of all real property, whether corporeal, or incorporeal, are referred, (but, perhaps not with entire accuracy,) to one or the other of those three heads.

e. 4th. Preston's Treatise on Estates. (Note 21.)

E. e. 5th. Randell's Essay on the Law of Perpetuity. (Note 22.)

E. e. 6th. Hawkeshead's Essay on the word Issue, &c. (Note 23.)

II. THE LAW OF REAL REMEDIES.

(Note 24.)

1st. Comyn's Analysis of Real Actions.*

2d. Blackstone's Commentaries, 3d vol. 10th and 11th chapters.

e. 3d. Stearne's Summary of the Law of Real Actions. (Note 25.)

E. 4th. Jackson on the Pleadings and Practice of Real Actions.

(Note 26.)

LORD COKE'S REPORTS.

[Select Cases therein on the Law of Real Rights and Real

Remedies.]

[In recommending to the industrious student the earnest perusal, in lord Coke's Reports, of certain cases on the law of real property, we desire to impress him with the strongest sentiments of respect and veneration for the writings of this distinguished luminary of the law.

The youth who would drink deeply in English jurisprudence, must resort to the fountains; for although the waters of many of the streams which flow from them may be sweeter and more limpid, they are by no means so strongly nutritive: they may allay the thirst of the moment, but leave no very durable or profitable effect.

* Vide 1 Comyn's Digest, page 140.